Clothes-tongs



M. WENZEL.

CLOTHES TONGS.

.APPLICATION man ocr. e. 19u.

Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

PATENT OFFICE.

. 'MAX wENgzIEr., orxANsAs CITY, MIssounI.

1 CLOTHESTONGS.

Specification of Letters Batent.

i Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

.Application led October 6,1917. Serial No. 195,121.

I To all @07mm t may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX WENZEL, va citizen of the United States,residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useing the clothing with the hands andalso which becomes soiled from the soiled clothing. 'The tongs will alsoprevent vscaldlng the handswhen the water is at or near the boilingpoint.

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i the accompanying drawing The present invention seeks to provide' animproved tongs forfhandling wash clothing Y andthe like.

With these and other lobjects in view the invention consists in thefeatures of construction, combinations and arrangementsv of partshereinafter set forth andinore p articularly pointed out in the appendedclaim, form of the improved clothes tongs.

In the drawings: i Y

v Figure 1, is a view in full lines of the tongs in open position andshowing 1n dotv Y ted linesV the position whenclosed.

' notch 7 in of the legs of the tongs,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary broken' view showing the formA ofhinge. Fig. 3, is a cross section taken on line 1 1 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view of ,one

the legs being duplicate so far as shownby this view.

Fig. 5, is a fragmentary sectional view taken on line 4.-4 of Fig. 4. Yy

The legs 6 are duplicate excepting for the one leg and the correspondinglug 8 in the opposite leg, each leg being provided with the cavity 9 inwhich the connecting plate 10 is loosely tted, the pins 11 passingthrough the legs 6 and the plate 10 and forming thev connecting hingefor the legs so that they can be opened to the position shown in fulllines clothing in water and;

prevent soiling the hands with the waterv illustrating a of Fig. 1 andclosed to the position shown in dotted lines of the same figure.

The plate 10 is provided with the slotted holes 12 in which the pins 13play freely to and fro as the tongs are opened or closed, the pins beingrigid in the legs 6.

The pin or shaft 14 is loosely fitted in the holes 15 of the legs 6 andhas loosely mountedA thereon, the coiled compression spring 16, thespring being stiiness to retain the legs normally in open position asshown, and the holes 15 being counterbored at 17 so that the spring willcompress within the legs and allow the tongs to be closed to theposition of the dotted lines of F ig.' 1. v

The lug 8 fits into the notch 7 when the tongs are closed and forms agrip to prevent the clothing from slipping from between the legs of thetongs when-very thin articles of clothing are gripped, thev notch andlug forming an uneven surface to revent slipping of heavy articles orbundles of clothing.

The tongs are held in the hand at a point between the pins 11 and theopening and closing ends of the legs 6, and a light pressure of theoperators hand will not prevent the spring 16 from holding the legs inopen position, while a firm grip of the hand will close the tongs uponthe clothing, so kthat the latter can be lifted from the water or otherlocation from which it is desired to remove the clothing.

' What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is a Inclothes tongs, a pair of legs of duplicate form excepting the grippingend thereof, the inner face .of each of said legs forming an obtuseangle longitudinally of the leg, the vertex of the angle of each of saidlegs facing the vertex of the angle of the opposing leg and in closeproximity thereto, a cavity in the inner side of each of said legs atthe vertex of the angle and reaching longitudinally in both directionstherefrom, a plate in said cavities, a pin in each of said legs near thevertex of the correspondng angle and through said connecting said legsso that when said tongs are closed the side of the angle reaching fromthe vertex to the gripping end of each of said legs is lying against thecorresponding side of the opposing leg and when said of suflicientlength and plate and hingedly Y vtongs are yopen thesideoitheangleofeaph leg reaching `from the vertex tothe opposite end ofthe tongs is lyingA againstihe corresponding side of the opposing-leg,a, holev with a closed end in each of seid legs lloer tween the' vertexof the' angle thereof; and; Y the gripping end of the tongs, said holeseach counterbored, a pinin Vsaid holes, a compression spring on said pinenclin the o counterbores, the tension of said spring tencl- 10 ingvtohol :lthe gripping-end of said tongs open, and means on `the grippingend oithe ktongs ,to hold. olotliesj MAX WEisziiL..VIV

